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Baiyun Mountain has been famed as a scenic spot since ancient times. [2] Its visitors predated the foundation of Panyu (now Guangzhou) in 214 BC, with various celebrities of the Warring States period (5th–3rd centuries BC) known to have traveled there.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Longgong National Park Scenic Area 2007 Guizhou: Bijie: Baili Dujuan National Forest Park Scenic Area 2013 Guizhou: Qiannan: Zhangjiang Scenic Area: 2015 Guizhou: Guiyang: Qingyan Ancient Town: 2017 Originally built in the year 1378, during the Ming dynasty. Qingyan's pig's feet is a local delicacy found in the town. The pig's feet symbolize ...
Its name refers to the white marble making up parts of its bedrock. [4] The roughly 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi) of dolomite making up the top of the mountain [6] was formed about 1 billion [7] to 700 million years ago and was pushed into place by about 54 km 2 (21 sq mi) of newly forming granite [6] created by a magma intrusion at the mountain's base about 140 mya.
This is a list of the nationally designated protected areas of China.There are many forms of protected areas in China. Based on their relative importance, each type of protected area can be further graded into two to three levels (national, provincial and prefectural/county level).
He Jingzhi composed the "Song of Guilin Scenic Area" [Note 2] during his visit to Guilin. Over 800 years ago, during the Southern Song dynasty, Wang Zhenggong wrote the famous line "Guilin's landscape is the best under heaven [Note 3] in his poem "A Grand Banquet Encouraging the Emperor", [Note 4] which made Guilin's scenery renowned worldwide.
The core area of the park, Linze Danxia Scenic Area, is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of downtown Zhangye and 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the seat of Linze County. It is the most developed and most visited part of the park. [ 2 ]
The Taihang Grand Canyon Scenic Area attracts more than four million tourists every year, and is located in the eastern part of Huguan County, Shanxi Province, China. The scenic area has a total size of 155.6 square kilometres, and includes 5 main gorges (Hongdou Gorge, Qinglong Gorge, Baquan Gorge, Wangmang Gorge and Wuzhi Gorge). [2]